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Dreame/ZDNET If you’re looking for a new robot vacuum and mop combination that’s highly-rated, check out this deal. The Dreame L10s Ultra robot vacuum and mop is half off for Amazon’s Presidents’ Day sale, bringing its price down from $900 to only $455. But if you’re looking to score these savings, you need to hurry. Amazon’s offer will expire after the holiday weekend.  This robot vacuum and mop features 5,300Pa of suction power and can automatically wash…

Sabrina Ortiz/ZDNET What’s the deal? The Anker Prime 100W USB-C Charger has become the only charger I depend on for my travels, and once you purchase it, I can guarantee you will feel the same way. Right now, the wall charger is 35% off, meaning you can buy it for just $55.  ZDNET’s key takeaways The Anker Prime 100W USB-C Charger is available on Amazon and the Anker website for $85. Whether you travel a lot, commute every…

baturaybatur/Getty Images SAP today announced a substantial upgrade to its enterprise-wide data management offerings and strategy. Called SAP Business Data Cloud, the new offering is a managed software-as-a-service (SaaS) that, the company says, “unifies and governs” all SAP data, “seamlessly” connects it with third-party data, and provides AI capabilities throughout. The company also announced a strategic partnership with Databricks, which creates unified data lakes and data warehouses (they call them Lakehouses). Databricks’ data unification makes…

ZDNET For a few weeks, I’ve been using Msty for research purposes. One of the main reasons I chose this route is that I like the idea of keeping those interactions isolated to my local machine. Thanks to Msty and Ollama, that’s a fairly easy task. One Msty/Ollama feature that has intrigued me is the ability to add your own content to what’s called a Knowledge Stack, which can enable you to integrate local data…

JuSun/Getty Images Windows 11, like its predecessor, includes easy options to encrypt your system drive. With BitLocker device encryption turned on for your PC’s system drive, your personal data is safe if your laptop is lost or stolen.  Also: How to upgrade your ‘incompatible’ Windows 10 PC to Windows 11 If Windows determines that boot integrity has been compromised, it will demand a recovery key (a 48-digit number, divided into eight groups of six numbers each) before it…

Prakhar Khanna/ZDNET Many of us were expecting the upcoming Oppo Find N5 to launch here as the OnePlus Open 2 — after all, the original Open was a rebadged version of the Oppo foldable in 2023. But that won’t be happening in 2025. OnePlus has just announced that it will not launch a foldable this year. No OnePlus foldable coming in 2025 In a community post on the OnePlus Forum, the company stated that it has “made the…

In particular, the switch’s operating system, Junos OS, features AIOps support to drive automation and simplify configuration and management, according to a blog post by Sanjoy Dey, vice president of product management for Juniper’s campus and branch portfolio. Relative to campus and branch deployments, for example, Junos OS lets enterprises uses AIOps capabilities to deploy entire network sites effortlessly, easily onboard new locations, and upgrade infrastructure without operational disruptions, Dey stated. Juniper’s AI-Native operations with…

Second, AI inference and enterprise clouds. “Our Nexus switches, Nvidia-based AI servers, AI Pods, and Hyperfabric and AI Defense software are designed to simplify and de-risk AI infrastructure deployment and bring the power of open, hyperscale AI networking to the enterprise,” Robbins said. And third, AI network connectivity. “Customers are leveraging our technology platforms across switching, routing, security and observability to modernize, secure, and  automate their network operations to prepare for pervasive deployment of AI…

Allison Murray/ZDNET What’s the deal?  The Samsung Freestyle 2 is currently $200 off when you buy it at Amazon, making it cost just under $600.  Also: The best early Presidents’ Day deals you can shop right now ZDNET’s key takeaways The Samsung Freestyle 2 is a solid projector available for $800.  Sharp image quality, an internal battery, and the ability to play games without a console make this projector ultraportable.  The second-generation feature upgrades are geared…